NATO: Remodeling the Club

NATO
Headlines rarely surround the meetings of the
foreign ministers of the 15 NATO nations who often seem to be the
talking, as opposed to the military, branch of NATO. But as the foreign
ministers gathered in Paris this week, a rare expectancy was in the
air. NATO's leading nation had at last accepted the proposition put
forward long ago by Canada's "Mike" Pearson and Italy's
Giovanni Gronchithat NATO should broaden its strictly military base
and serve as the free world's chosen instrument in politics and
economics.

Beyond accepting this premise, John Foster Dulles himself seemed a
little vague on...